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Rapid Climate Change Outpaces Evolution, Threatening Vital Ecosystems
Researchers are sequencing genomes to find climate-resilient traits, but the approach remains experimental and has not yet been deployed at scale.
- Climate Change is progressing faster than evolution, putting critical ecosystems like California redwoods and coastal seagrass under severe stress.
- Factors such as marine heatwaves, wildfires, and coastal development are pushing these ecosystems beyond their limits.
- Up to 1 million species face extinction, largely due to human-driven impacts like habitat destruction, pollution, and resource overuse, according to a UN-linked scientific report.
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Climate change can accelerate the evolution of species through inherited changes in genetic regulation, according to a new study based on fruit flies. Higher mean temperatures and more extreme events such as heat waves lead to increasingly frequent stressful episodes, which can function as strong evolutionary drivers.
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